Hossein Taeb

Who is Hossein Taeb?

Hossein Taeb is the head of the intelligence bureau of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a Hojjatoleslam Shia Muslim cleric. Prior to becoming head of the IRGC intelligence bureau in October 2009 he was commander of the Basij militia. He became acting commander of the Basij sometime before October 29, 2007, and commander on July 14, 2008, and was replaced by Mohammad Reza Naqdi on 4 October 2009.

According to a biography from the "pro-government" Iran Student Correspondents Association summarized in the website Iran Rises, Taeb was born in 1342. After his middle education, he went to seminary school and reached an advanced degree in Islamic jurisprudence after studying in Tehran, Mashhad, and Qom. He had studied with, among others, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Taeb joined the Revolutionary Guards in 1361, beginning his work in Region 10 of Tehran and continued on to Qom and Mashhad. He was "for some time the Revolutionary Guards’ coordinator with the Leader as well as the cultural commander of Imam Hossein College." He lost a brother in the Kerbala V operation during the Iran-Iraq War and is married with three children.